Bobby Doyle Summer Classic 5M (2015 GP Race #5) by Age-Grade

Bobby Doyle Summer Classic 5M – August 9, 2015 – 2015 GP Race #5
This result set is sorted by Age-graded Percentage (AG % or AGP). It includes all USATF-NE members along with those runners with an AG % greater than 60%

Jan Holmquist’s time of 36:41 (and 98%+ AGP) will be submitted for record consideration in the F70-74 age group. Details in the future. Maria Servin had a return to some very high standards of past years. She scored under 80% in the first three races of the year, just under 90% in the 5K, and looks like she is back in full form with a breakthrough 93% here. Also a big race for Doug Martyn who eked over 91% to have the best score on the Men’s side of the race. Note that the AGP scores are based on chip times and use your age to the day, not rounded to the year. That makes a more level playing field for the Master athletes. All other race scoring is done using gun time. You may also note that all three top scorers compete for the same Club, which may be why Whirlaway won many of the older age division team titles.

Age-grading trivia: This is a somewhat rare race where the Open Female winner scored higher than the Open Male. As fast as sub 24:00 sounds, sub 27:00 on the female side is equally fast. The WR standards for the 5M Road Race are 21:19 and 24:12, both hard to fathom by me. 90% of those WR times are 23:41 and 26:53 respectively, the time an Open runner has to beat to score over 90%. The women’s 5M World Best is 13.5% slower than the men’s record. At the more universal 10K distance the women’s record is just under 13% slower, probably more reflective of the actual difference in speed. This means there is a small technical advantage for the women in age-grading the 5M versus the more globally competed 10K distance. Works out to about a 0.40% handicap which won’t be there for the Lone Gull 10K. But the top 3 women below scored Full percentage points higher so put their stamp on this race. Congrats to Laura Nagel for her course and race records and prize bonus.

As of Tuesday, August 11, these are latest results processed from source results by Spitler Race Systems available at http://www.coolrunning.com/results/15/ri/Aug9_8thAnn_set1.shtml.
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